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Distributed Database System
(MCA)

Assignment A
Marks 10
Answer all questions.

1. What are the components of a distributed database system? Explain with the help of a
diagram.
2. What is the difference between homogeneous and heterogeneous distributed database
system?
3. What is location transparency?
4. What is Fragmentation? Discuss various types of Fragmentations with the help of suitable
examples.
5. Write short note on any three of the following
a. Remote and distributed transactions.
b. Replication and consideration while designing the distributed data base system
c. Network Transparency
d. Underlying design principles in COBRA architecture.
e. Deadlock prevention deadlock detection algorithms.

Distributed Database System

(MCA)

Assignment B
Marks 10
Answer all questions.

1. What are the functions of distributed database management system? What are the advantages
and disadvantages of distributed database systems?
2. Explain concurrency control mechanism in DDBMS.
3. Why is distributed database system said to be scalable?
Case Study
By taking any real time situation, explain how a participating node performs its recovery when it
fails during the processing of a transaction?

Distributed Database System

(MCA)

Assignment C
Marks 10
Answer all questions.
Tick mark(√) the most appropriate answer

1. Which is the following is a component of a distributed database system?

a) Server
b) Client
c) Network
d) All of the above
2. Which of the following computing model is used by distributed database system?
a) Mainframe computing model
b) Disconnected, personal computing model
c) Client/Server computing model
d) None of the above
3. Which of the following refers to the operation of the copying and maintaining database objects
in multiple databases belonging to a distributed system?
a) Backup
b) Recovery
c) Replication
d) None of the above
4. Which of the following refers to the fact that the command used to perform a task independent
of the location of the data and location of the system where the command was issued?
a) Naming Transparency
b) Location Transparency
c) Fragmentation Transparency
d) All of the above
5. Which of the following is the probability that the system is up and running at a certain point in
time?
a) Reliability
b) Availability
c) Maintainability
d) None of the above
6. Which of the following is not a benefit of site autonomy?
a) A global catalog is not necessary to access local data.
b) Nodes can upgrade software independently
c) Administrators can recover from isolated system failures independently
d) There is no need for backup and recovery
7. Which of the following is the recovery management technique in the case of distributed
systems?
a) Deferred update
b) Immediate update
c) Two-phase commit
d) None of the above
8. Which of the following is a function of a distributed DBMS?
a) Distributed query processing
b) Replicated data management
c) Distributed data recovery
d) All of the above
9. What is data about data called?
a) Metadata
b) Data catalog
c) Information
d) None of the above
10. Which of the following strategy is designed to ensure the either all the databases are updated
or none of them are?
a) Two-phase commit
b) Two-phase locking
c) Two-phase update
d) None of the above
11. Which one is not true in case of Distributed Database query processing?
a) parsing the global query,
b) query optimization,
c) Query execution.
d) All of the above
e) None of the above
12. Which one is not a valid join Distributed Database query?
a) Nested-loops join,
b) Sort-merge join
c) Quick-merge join
d) Hash-join.

13. Which one is not a feature of Distributed Database System?

a) Replication
b) Fragmentation
c) Relation
d) None
e) All

14. In horizontal fragmentation, original relation is obtained by applying--

a) Selection
b) Projection
c) Join
d) Merge
15. In vertical fragmentation, original relation is obtained by applying--
a) Selection
b) Projection
c) Join
d) Merge

16. Which of the following is a column in a table that uniquely identifies the records from a
different table?
a) Primary key
b) Candidate key
c) Foreign key
d) Intelligent key

17. What is the expansion of BCNF?

a) Boyd-Cromwell Normal Form
b) Boyce-Codd Normal Form
c) Boyd- Codd Normal form
d) None of the above

18. Which is the symbol used to denote the SELECT operation?

a) Sigma
b) Rho
c) Pi
d) None of the above
19. Which of the following is used to express a many-to-many relationship?
a) Union tables
b) Join tables
c) Intersection tables
d) None of the above

20. What is a set of columns that store similar information that repeats in the same table?
a) Tuple group
b) Recurring group
c) Repeating group
d) None of the above

21. Which of the following is the result of a transitive dependency?

 a) Insertion anomaly
b) Modification anomaly
c) Deletion anomaly
d) All of the above

22. Whenever two independent one-to-many relationships are mixed in the same relation is
called--
a) Functional dependency
b) Multi-valued dependency
c) Transitive dependency
d) None of the above

23. Which is the process of building data base structure to store data?
a) Concurrency management
b) Compilation
c) Normalization
d) None of the above
24. What is an attribute composed of multiple components, each with an independent existence is
called?
a) Atomic
b) Composite
c) Derived
d) Single-valued
25. A collection of data designed to be used by different people is called a…………..
a) Database
b) DBMS
c) MIS
d) None of the above
26. Which of the following is a characteristic of the data in database?
a) Shared
b) Secure
c) Independent
d) All of the above
27. The attribute or set of attributes used to look up a record in a file is called a…………
a) Primary key
b) Secondary key
c) Candidate key
d) None of the above
28. Which is not true in DDBMS?
a) Geographically Dispersed
b) Vary in Size
c) Separately Administered
d) Inter-connected by WAN/LAN
e) (e) All of these
f) (f) None of these

29. Which is not a group function?

a) Max
b) Min
c) Having
d) Sum

30. Which is not a concurrency control technique?

a) Timestamp
b) Lock Based
c) (c)Multi-version
 d) Log Based

31. At which level the multi valued dependency among attributes is checed?
a) 2NF
b) 3NF
c) 4NF
d) 5NF
32. Ability to modify the internal schema without causing any change to the external schema is
known as--

a) Physical Data Independence

b) Logical data Independence
c) External Data Independence
d) None of above
33. A computer forming the part of a Distributed Database is called—
a) Node
b) Site.
c) Server
d) Location
34. Command that lets you change one or more fields in a record is—
a) Insert
b) Modify
c) Lookup
d) Create
35. In which of the following some of the columns of a relation are at different sites?
a) Data Replication
b) Horizontal Partitioning
c) Vertical Partitioning
d) Horizontal and Vertical Partitioning
36. Which language has recently become the de facto standard for interfacing application
program with relational database system?
a) Oracle
b) SQL
c) d base
d) 4GL

37. In homogenous DDMS—

a) There are several sites, each running their own application on the same DBMS
software
b) All sites have identical DBMS software
c) All users or clients use identical software
d) None of above
38. In distributed query processing, semi join operation is used to--
a) Reduce the size of relation that needs to be transmitted.
b) Reduce communication costs
c) a) & b) above
d) None of above
39. Horizontal fragmentation is produced by specifying a—
a) Predicate operation of relational algebra.
b) Projection operation of relational algebra.
c) Selection and projection operation of relational algebra.
d) None of above.
40. Which of the following strategies are used in distributed database system?
a) Totally centralized at one location and accessed by many sites.
b) Partially or totally replicated across sites
c) Partitioned into segments at different sites.
 d) All of the above.